The president of Brazil's lower house, Rodrigo Maia, said on Monday he was worried about the possibility of passing a bill to privatize state-run electricity firm Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA , known as Eletrobras. The government hopes to raise some 12.2 billion reais ($3.71 billion) from the privatization of Eletrobras. Speaking at an event in Rio de Janeiro, Maia said Congress had faced political difficulties trying to set up a commission to deal with the company's privatization, which could portend difficulties in whipping up the votes needed to pass the program.

Brazil's state-controlled power company Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras SA said on Friday that Eletropaulo, Brazil's largest power distribution company, has agreed to pay it 1.4 billion reais to settle ...

Brazilian energy holding company Energisa SA met with the energy regulator ANEEL to discuss possible changes in the rules for the sale of six power distribution companies expected for May, according to ...

The speaker of Brazil's lower house Rodrigo Maia said on Thursday that he is aiming for the body to vote on a bill containing the rules for how to privatize state-controlled power company Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA . President Michel Temer issued a provisional decree last year that changed the country's law to allow for Eletrobras, as the company is commonly known, to be privatized. A Supreme Court justice last week overturned a lower court's injunction blocking some parts of Temer's decree, removing a major legal roadblock to moving forward on selling Eletrobras.

Brazil's government on Friday froze 8 billion reais ($2.5 billion) in expenses for this year under a revised budget to account for potential delays in a plan to privatize power utility Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras SA . Policymakers expect to raise 12.2 billion reais through the privatization of Eletrobras, as the power utility is known.

The chief executive officer of Brazil’s state-owned utility Eletrobras remains confident that a controversial plan to take the company private will succeed this year despite opposition from lawmakers and ...

Brazil's state-controlled power company Eletrobras aims to settle U.S. class action lawsuits before it begins what is expected to be the country's largest privatization in almost two decades, Chief Executive Wilson Ferreira Jr said on Wednesday. Investors in the United States have sued Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras SA (Eletrobras) after the company reported large losses related to a sprawling corruption scandal in Brazil.

Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4.SA) owes the government billions of dollars tied to offshore exploration rights but is unlikely to pay this year, a cabinet minister said. The government's 2018 budget does not include any revenue from the so-called "transfer of rights" area that has sparked a dispute with the company also known as Petrobras, Planning Minister Dyogo Oliveira said in an interview on Thursday. In 2010, Brazil exchanged offshore exploration rights for equity in Petrobras.

Brazilian state-run power utility Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras SA will reduce its investments starting in 2018 to boost efficiency ahead of its planned privatization next year. In a securities filing on Monday, the company, known as Eletrobras, said its board had authorized investments of 19.75 billion reais ($6 billion) for 2018 through 2022. Eletrobras said the investments would be in power generation, transmission and infrastructure projects, directly or through special-purpose vehicles.

Brazilian state-run power utility Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras SA said its board had authorized investments of 19.75 billion reais to be made over five years starting in 2018, according to a securities ...

Facing a severe financial crisis, Brazil's state-run nuclear power concern Eletrobras Termonuclear SA may halt operations at two power plants in Rio de Janeiro, newspaper O Estado de São Paulo reported on Tuesday, citing a letter from the firm's acting chief executive. In the letter to power sector regulator Aneel last week, Leonam dos Santos Guimarães described the situation as "grave" and warned the company's Angra 1 and Angra 2 nuclear plants may interrupt power production by 2019 if nothing is done to solve the problem. Eletronuclear, owned by Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA , is highly indebted and in default on supplier bills, including providers of uranium used as fuel to generate electricity, O Estado reported.

Brazil's deputy Finance Minister Eduardo Guardia said on Wednesday the government expects to send a bill to privatize state-controlled utility Eletrobras to Congress next week. Guardia said key details of the privatization process will be submitted to a shareholders meeting expected to take place next year. Voting rights will be limited to 10 percent for individual new investors, a way of ensuring Eletrobras will have dispersed share ownership after the privatization, Guardia said.

Brazilian development bank BNDES's chief executive said on Tuesday that the government is considering a two-stage privatization of state-controlled power holding company Centrais Brasileiras SA. Paulo ...

Brazil's lower house of Congress is likely to approve the privatization of power utility Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras SA by the end of the year, House Speaker Rodrigo Maia said on Tuesday. Investors ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government has approved the privatisation model for the power distribution units of state-run company Eletrobras (ELET5.SA), Adalberto Vasconcelos, who heads the body overseeing ...

Brazil's Energy Ministry will send to President Michel Temer three bills within the next 10 days that will propose changes to electricity sector rules and will contain the model for the privatization of state-run utility Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras SA, an official told Reuters on Tuesday. The ministry will send the first of the bills, one dealing with the sale of distributors owned by Eletrobras, as the company is known, as early as today, said Paulo Pedrosa, Brazil's deputy energy minister. According to the official, the government plans to offer compensation to Eletrobras in exchange for proposed changes in its hydropower contracts.

, an official at electricity regulator Aneel told Reuters. The project in Rio Grande do Sul state requires roughly 3.3 billion reais ($1.0 billion) in investment and had originally been awarded to the Eletrobras unit Eletrosul Centrais Eletricas SA, or Eletrosul. Closure of the deal depends on Shanghai Electric accepting conditions imposed by Aneel, said Director José Jurhosa, who heads the agency's unit overseeing the case.